Code for DC is partnering with DC Mutual Aid. Mollie Bates is leading the effort.

Update on work so far:

• Our top priority is to help DC Mutual Aid recruit DC Neighborhood Pod Leads. Start a pod on your block, or text a friend to start one on theirs! Becca is our liason with DC Mutual Aid. Start helping your neighbors, now!
• To help recruit Pod leads, we are working on a spreadsheet of DC Civic Association data. Know a friend involved with the civic association? Ask them to fill out the spreadsheet.
• Becca will work with DC Mutual Aid to email ANC members and Civic Association leaders about the pod effort once we have a good list. The ANC contact list is done.
• Long term, our goal is to map the connections between ANC Single Member Districts, Civic Associations, and Neighborhood Mutual Aid pods, while maintaining privacy of the Pod leads. See the Project Pitch for more info, and please leave feedback. We do not need to built this urgently. What is urgent is taking care of yourself, staying home, connecting neighbors via Mutual Aid pods, donating money to aid groups, volunteering at food banks, supporting local small businesses etc.

Code for Baltimore is putting together an application that can ingest data in various forms (though you have to write a script per source), and then deliver a sort of Contact and Response Management API.

It’s a small project inspired by my own hand written note in my apartment elevator. It’s simple - just a place for folks to share names/numbers in case someone needs help - but we thought it was a good way to contribute something small scale, personal, and more direct action that wouldn’t interfere with larger efforts.

Code for Dayton is working on reconfiguring and redeploying “Flo’s Whistle” a self reporting app we built in 2018. It’s a whistle blowing app for nurses (hence the name “Flo” for Florence Nightingale and “whistle” for obvious reason) to anonymously report unsafe working conditions secondary to staffing shortages. The anonymous reports are filed by zip code, which is converted to congressional district, then displayed on a public facing choropleth map. It was an experiment and we learned a fair amt about anonymous reporting, but we never did much with the data display at all.
Now that there are national outcries about critical shortages of a variety of supplies for frontline caregivers, we’re modifying the input to allow for reporting by first responders, physicians and respiratory therapists as well, and for them to provide a list of shortages by date, healthcare setting, and zip code. We are just starting to work on the public facing dashboard part. We’ve applied for grant money from Ohio State University, but we can’t wait for funding, so we’re just soldiering on with whoever we can recruit. The online persona from the original project “Flo Nightingale RN” has maintained a social media presence, and will be the promoter of the app on FB, Twitter and Instagram. Co-captain Dave Best is the developer lead on this project.

#proj-signs-of-hope - Working with City of Eugene to create signs and response from artist and creatives in all sectors to support Front Line Workers during COVID-19. Small acts of kindness have huge ripples.

#proj-sing-a-long - Working with the City of Eugene culture services and llocal choirs to create an online performance using #proj-virtual-town-square Jitsi servers.

#proj-local-take-out - Working with the Eugene Chamber of Commerce to quickly update a local Map of restaurants with details on ordering and pick-up options.

#proj-virtual-town-square - Working with Emerald Broadband (local ISP) to host a free videoconferencing solution (Jitsi) for regional civic events like city council meetings, online events, etc.

#proj-eugville - Online virtual environment for Web and VR for folks to hang out and find resources.